Early Modern Drama and the Theatre of War: Militarism, Conflict and Disruption in the Plays of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Author:   Bronwen Price ,  Hilary Hinds
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 October 2025
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Early Modern Drama and the Theatre of War: Militarism, Conflict and Disruption in the Plays of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries


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Author:   Bronwen Price ,  Hilary Hinds
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.515kg
ISBN:  

9781526184344


ISBN 10:   1526184346
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Introduction – Bronwen Price and Hilary Hinds Part 1 War and social unrest 1 Images of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a history of the present – Simon Barker 2 ‘Revellers of fate’: Thomas Salusbury’s ‘An Antimasque of Gypsies’ performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December, 1641 – Rebecca Bailey 3 Satire, mock militarism and anti-provincial prejudice in ‘The Death of the Lord of Kyme’ – Christopher Marlow Part 2 Militarism, masculinity and gender 4 Militarism in Shakespeare’s Henry VI – Not ‘keeping It dark’ – Franziska Quabeck 5 Coriolanus, Fort-Da and the subject-as-object of war – Heather Hirschfeld 6 Shakespeare and the discourse of revenge in Hamlet and Othello – John Drakakis Part 3 Shakespeare and twentieth-century militarism 7 Shakespeare and the construction of an ideal soldier during the First World War – Monika Smialkowska 8 Wartime Hamlet – Irena Makaryk 9 Illyrian knights: Shakespeare, comedy, war – Simon Barker References Appendix: Simon Barker’s publications Index -- .

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Bronwen Price is an independent researcher and guest member of ERIBIA, Caen University. Hilary Hinds is Professor of Literary Culture in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.

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